Re-launch of the blog ;)

Now I am 100% GNU/Linux on my system’s here at home (at least on the live boxes) I have decided to get the blog rolling again!

All my windows machines are now VM’s and are used for learning and development work for my job, its nice using VMs for testing as I can snapshot them break them, and restore them

I have chosen to use vmware to do my virtual hosting on as its the system I use at work and I am comfortable with it, the only downside to this is that I have to use a virtual workstation to access the console of the esxi server. I have read that vmware are bring a flash based admin center out for ESXi and that will make my life a lot easier (yes I know flash… but its better than the C# version at the mo)

You can probably guess what my distro of choice is… Gentoo! Yes the laptop is a bit slow at compiling but it gets there in the end.

I am still working through learning how to create android apps, and pretty much having to learn how to program in java and its proving a challenging experience but I am enjoying it as learning how to program is something I have always wanted to do.

I will try to keep the blog updated from time to time, I am aiming on a post a weekish

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Hey matey, I’m going the same way but cant decide on a desktop virtualisation software Ive alway used VMware workstation on windows but virtualbox seems good for Linux as it supports direct io eg iommu or vt-d so I could passthrough pcie cards aswell as USB, what are you using?

@aaron
I decided to use VMware workstation as its what I am most comfortable with and my vmserver is esxi so in a pinch I could move machines to / from it.
I have not tried to pass pcie cards through but I know it does USB so it covers my needs…..
If you decide on Gentoo and need a hand or any questions just holler